SPRINGBOKS HOME AGAIN
Great Welcome At Durban (Received October 31, 9 p.m.) Durban, October 30. Cheering crowds gathered at the quayside to welcome home the Springboks. Tugs sounded their sirens and aeroplanes zoomed overhead. The captain. P. J. Nel, expressed appreciation of the hospitality received in Australia and New Zealand. He said : “We have brought back the ashes. We achieved what no previous .South African team has done—beaten the All Blacks in a series of Tests—and the secret of it was team work.” During the voyage players discussed the project of forming a Springbok club, membership of which would lie open to any man who had won the South African Rugby jersey. He said he hoped the board would approve of the idea.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 31, 1 November 1937, Page 11
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